'Couples Therapy' Returns, Real-Life Superhero in Seattle, Apple Post Steve, Pulitzer Prize Winner Kendrick Lamar's New Album, 'Big Feelings' and Comparison
Showtime's hit docuseries, "Couples Therapy," returns for its 3rd season this month. We speak to therapist and the show's relationship counselor Orna Guralnik about this season's couples and take listener calls.
The Rain City Superhero Movement was a vigilante organization led by Ben Fodor, an MMA fighter-turned-crime fighter who sought to thwart wrongdoers in Seattle while wearing a yellow and black bulletproof suit, under the name Phoenix Jones. A new podcast, "The Superhero Complex," explores Jones's rise to (and fall from) fame alongside the phenomenon of real-life superheroism. Host David Weinberg joins us.
A new book tells the inside story of the culture of Apple and its trajectory after the passing of the company's co-founder and CEO, Steve Jobs. Author Tripp Mickle, technology reporter for the New York Times, interviewed more than 200 Apple employees to uncover how the company tried to reimagine itself after the death of Jobs, the power struggle between Tim Cook and Jony Ive for control, and where Apple sees itself in the future of big tech. Mickle joins us to discuss his reporting and his book, After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul.
Rapper, songwriter and producer Kendrick Lamar recently released his latest studio album Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers. Complex anchor and producer Alana Yzola joins us to analyze the album's themes and the artist's career.
Recently, we were joined by Mollie West Duffy and Liz Fosslein, authors of a new book, Big Feelings: How to Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay. We enjoyed the conversation so much, and had so much more to talk about from the book, that we decided to invite Liz and Mollie back for every show this week to take on one big feeling a day, and take your calls as part of our ongoing series, "Taking Care Of You in 2022" and for Mental Health Awareness month. Today, Liz will join us. The specific feeling for this day is comparison.
